emailing from a form

[jason12776]

My mind went blank, and this was the first place I turned. My boss needs me to make a registration form that will send the contents of the form to a specific email address. For example, there will be a textbox, FirstName, and LastName. When the user clicks on the submit button, the contents will be sent to an email address.

Please help.

 

[tsdragon]

You can use a mailto: link in the form action, but that's not a real neat or pretty way to do it. The better way is to use a cgi program that will email the form contents. Here's one that I wrote (it's not free, but it's cheap and very versatile):

http://www.bydisn.com/software/TDFormData.

Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[tsdragon]

To be fair, I should point out that there are a lot of other form-mail programs too. Check out

http://www.hotscripts.com

for others. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[SharkEye]

Yer above is true however depending on where you are setting this page up you could always use a ph script which means you will also be able to display a thank you page with the persons name!

it will send all info via e-mail to the address you give

regards Please see my site at:

http://www.sharkeye.co.uk

 

[tsdragon]

Now that's an idea I hadn't thought of. I'll have to incorporate into my script. Right now it allows you to specify a "thank you" page to be displayed after the form is processed, but it uses a redirect to the page. If I actually open the html file, read it, and write it to the browser I can use the same form variable substitution I use for the notify and autoresponse email messages, and allow the user to customize the thank you page with the contents of the form. Thanks for the idea.
Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.